Why the Creators of AI Do Not Understand Their Own Creations

Just citations.Dario Amodei (CEO of Anthropic, 2025): "People outside the field are often surprised and alarmed to learn that we do not understand how our own AI creations work. This lack of understanding is essentially unprecedented in the history of technology."MIT Technology Review: "Despite all the stunning success, nobody really knows how — or why — it works."Yoshua Bengio (Turing Award laureate, 2024): "If we continue as before, we are driving against the wall. Or at least we are driving into a fog, without knowing whether there is a wall."Mathematician Roman Vershynin (UC Irvine), in a recent interview — "We advanced to the wall and hit it."So why did AI research hit the wall?The answer is not hard to find, and most people in the field know it, even if they prefer not to say it loudly. The point is that all training data used by AI is secondary, while the primary source is the human being. Every text, every image, every pattern a neural network absorbs — all of it was created by humans. A neural network does not discover the laws of the world; it only finds regularities in what has already been created by human intelligence.So if we want to understand how AI forms…